Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents — John Shaqi
Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
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Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France: Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents
Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
This done, we put an end to the interrogation and postponed the
remainder to Saturday next, 8 o’clock in the morning, in the same place,
summoning all the Assessors to be present.
_Saturday, March 3rd, in the same place, the Bishop and 41 Assessors
present._
In their presence, We required the said Jeanne simply and absolutely to
swear to speak the truth on what should be asked of her. She replied:
“I am ready to swear as I have already done.”
And thus did she swear, her hands on the Holy Gospels.
Afterwards, because she had said, in previous Enquiries, that Saint
Michael had wings, but had said nothing of the body and members of Saint
Catherine and Saint Margaret, We asked her what she wished to say
thereon.
“I have told you what I know; I will answer you nothing more. I saw
Saint Michael and these two Saints so well that I know they are Saints
of Paradise.”
“Did you see anything else of them but the face?”
“I have told you what I know; but to tell you all I know, I would rather
that you made me cut my throat. All that I know _touching the Trial_ I
will tell you willingly.”
“Do you think that Saint Michael and Saint Gabriel have human heads?”
“I saw them with my eyes; and I believe it was they as firmly as I
believe there is a God.”
“Do you think that God made them in the form and fashion that you saw?”
“Yes.”
“Do you think that God did from the first create them in this form and
fashion?”
“You will have no more at present than what I have answered.”
“Do you know by revelation if you will escape?”
“That does not touch on your Case. Do you wish me to speak against
myself?”
“Have your Voices told you anything?”
“That is not in your Case. I refer me to the Case. If all concerned you,
I would tell you all. By my faith, I know neither the day nor the hour
that I shall escape!”
“Have your Voices told you anything in a general way?”
“Yes, truly, they have told me that I shall be delivered, but I know
neither the day nor the hour. They said to me: ‘Be of good courage and
keep a cheerful countenance.’”
“When you first came to the King, did he ask you if you had any
revelation about your change of dress?”
“I have answered you about that. I do not remember if I was asked. It is
written at Poitiers.”
“Do you not remember if the Masters who questioned you in the other
Consistory, some during a month, others during three weeks, questioned
you about your change of dress?”
“I do not remember. But they asked me where I had assumed this man’s
dress; and I told them it was at Vaucouleurs.”
“Did the aforesaid Masters ask you if it were by order of your Voice
that you took this dress?”
“I do not remember.”
“Did not your Queen[47] ask you, the first time you went to visit her?”
“I do not remember.”
“Did not your King, your Queen, or some of your party, tell you to take
off this man’s dress?”
“That is not in your Case.”
“Were you not so told at the Castle of Beaurevoir?”[48]
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